Sugar, diabetes, is there a relationship?

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%253Adoi%252F10.1371%252Fjournal.pone.0057873

Association of Sugar Availability (kcal/person/day) with Log Diabetes Prevalence, Adjusted for Selection Bias
Effect of Sugar Availability	0.008 (0.0009)***
Effect of Sugar Hazard Rate l †	-1.08 (0.66)

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Note: Robust standard errors in parentheses clustered by country. Models include controls used in the basic specification in equation 1.

† l is the hazard rate of sugar availability, also referred to as the Inverse Mills Ratio.